Storm Rips Hoosick Falls Area with Fires and Lightning
A severe thunderstorm struck Hoosick Falls Tuesday night causing four fires and widespread damage. Lightning sparked a barn blaze on Rogers Avenue and transformers on Main Street. homes lost power as Niagara Mohawk restored service. Fire crews from Hoosick Falls North Hoosick and nearby stations battled blazes, with three minor injuries reported.
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Hoosick Falls
Main Street
Griffin Avenue
Rogers Avenue
Niagara Mohawk Power Company
Ann
Armstrong
Don Hillman
Ann Armstrong
C.W. McKeen
General Motors Donates Car to Castleton High School
General Motors presented a 1976 Vega with parts and tools to Castleton-On-Hudson High School. The gift supports driver education and shop classes to train personnel for a growing automotive industry, according to a GM spokesman.
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Castleton-On-Hudson
General Motors
Castleton-On- Hudson
Empire State Plaza Museum Opening Celebrated in Bicentennial
Albany hosts a four day inaugural weekend at the Empire State Plaza marking the new State Museum. Duke Don McLean opens Thursday with a folk concert followed by sacred music, fireworks, and a Saturday folk festival. The weekend closes with a Lake George Opera Festival and Albany Symphony concert.
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Albany
New State Museum
Empire State Plaza
Don McLean
McLean
Hudson River
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Evelyne Beers-Burnstine
Lake George Opera Festival
Albany Symphony Orchestra
George Gershwin
Aaron Copland
John Philip Sousa
Leonard Bernstein
Horatio Parker
Charles Ives
Car Wash Liability Question About Damaged Tie Rod
A Petersburg reader reports a VW was damaged after a car wash pulled by the grip on the left front wheel. The owner refused to file a written report. a VW dealer later diagnosed a bent tie-rod from excessive pulling, totaling a $100 repair. The correspondent seeks guidance but faces proof difficulties without the dealer’s paper.
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V.W
Directory of Human Services Aid for Four-County Area
A new Directory of Human Services lists 415 community agencies in Rensselaer Albany Schenectady and Saratoga counties. Published by the Albany Area Council of Community Services, it offers referral help and costs $2 per copy at 877 Madison Ave Albany NY 12208.
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Directory of Human Services
United Way
Council of Community Services
Albany
Rensselaer
Schenectady
Saratoga
Council
Madison Ave
N.Y
Two Teens Die in Lake Luzerne Drowning Tragedy
Two Long Island teenagers drowned when their rubber rafts capsized on Lake Luzerne. Vincent Striano, 17, was found ashore at a camp near Lake Luzerne, and Kenneth W. Reid, 19, was recovered in the Hudson River near Windsor Cotey. Both were pronounced dead.
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Lake Luzerne
Long Island
Saratoga County
Vincent Striano
Hawkeye St
Ronkonkamo
Isabelle Morrow
Cavern Dr
Lake Luzern
Kenneth W. Reid
Mohegan Ave
Hudson River
Windsor Cotey
Corinth
Warren County
John Cunningham
Striano
Reid
Hadley
Michael
Penny
Stacey Smithline
Garden Court
Berlin to mark Bicentennial with weekend events and parade
Berlin plans a three day patriotic program led by the Bicentennial Committee featuring a Saturday parade at 1 30 p m at the Berlin Central School with a flower show from Taconic Valley Farm and Garden Association and a barbecue after firemen events. A field day at the school offers old fashioned games and crafts booths. A quilt auction at 3 p m on the school steps follows a slide show Berlin of Yesteryear and a screening of Apple Tree Girl at 7 p m. Sunday includes a Methodist Bicentennial service and open house with a clothes of another era theme, plus repeated Saturday activities at 10 a m 4 p m and 5 p m. A 9 p m to midnight square and round dancing occurs at the fire hall with refreshments at the school. Monday features a history themed parade at 11 a m with judging at 10 30 a m, ending at the school. Firemen plan a chicken event.
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Berlin
Yesteryear
Seventh Day Baptist Church
Methodist Church
Berlin Watips Association
School Street
Main Street
Park Avenue
Cambridge Invitational Predicted Log Race Scheduled
The Cambridge Invitational Predicted Log Race is being reinstated this year with a 1:30 p.m. start Sunday weather permitting. The course begins at Dutchman's Hole on the Battenkill near the Vermont border.
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Cambridge
Dutchman's Hole
Battenkill
Vermont
Open house marks birthday theme at Hoosick Falls Senior Center
HOOSICK FALLS Tonight's open house at the Senior Citizens Center on Church Street celebrates "Happy Birthday, America" with a large Ruth Van DerKar cake to be cut by committee members. The event features artifacts, crafts, food displays, and a covered dish picnic, with a 10 a.m. Sunday postponement note on Pete's marquee.
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Hoosick Falls
America
Senior Citizens Center
Church Street
Ruth van DerKar
Elizabeth Pokines
Alice Wolff
Isabell Wilwol
Ben Potts
Pete
Park Street
Peter Clark
Route 313
Nurses Association Night Informational Program in Bennington
The Bennington County Registered Nurses Association sponsors an informational program on the American Nurses Association at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Bennington on Pleasant Street at 7 p.m. tonight. Guest speaker is Ann Janney of the Vermont State Nurses Association. Open to all registered nurses.
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Bennington
Bennington County Registered Nurses Association
American Nurses Association
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Pleasant Street
Ann Janney
The
Vermont State Nurses Association
Loaned books due back at school
Clifton Park notice lists book return window for loaned textbooks to non public school students in Shenendehowa district. Returns accepted at Middle School A business office from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. today through July 9. District students from Academy of Holy Names Doane Stuart Christian Brothers Academy and many Albany Troy Cohoes Schenectady area schools must return books then.
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Clifton Park
Shenedehowa
Shenendehowa
Academy of Holy Names
Doane Stuart
Christian Brothers Academy
Our Savior Lutheran
St. Pius
Albany
Catholic Central
LaSalle Institute
Troy
Immaculate Conception
Watervliet
Sts. Peter and Paul
St. Marie
St. Michael's
Cohoes
Notre Dame
Bishop Gibbons
Schenectady
Loudonville
Flooding closes Route 7 near Vermont border
Severe flooding on New York Route 7 near the Vermont border closes the road from Smith gas station to the border. A culvert bridge near Hoosick washed out around 11 p.m. creating an eight foot deep hole. Two to three days expected for restoration with traffic rerouted via Breeze Hollow Road. In Bennington Vermont, River Road Chapel Road and Orebed Road also closed.
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Brunswick
New York
Vermont
Smith's Gulf Station
Hoosick
Rensselaer County Sheriff's Department
Smith Gas Station
State Department of Transportation
Breeze Hollow Road
Hoosick Falls
Bennington
River Road
Chapel Road
Dr. Jackson Joins Cambridge Internal Medicine Practice
Dr. David S. Jackson will join Drs. Newton Kruncieck Joseph Pender Arthur Amick and Edward Hughes in internal medicine at offices in Cambridge and Hoosick Falls. He earned a B S from Albany College of Pharmacy in 1966 and an M D from Albany Medical College in 1973 after internship and residency at Albany Medical Center. He has hospital privileges at Mary McClellan Hospital and resides in Cambridge with his wife Pamela Woodward and two children.
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Cambridge
David S. Jackson
Newton Kruncieck
Joseph C. Pender
Arthur F. Amick
Edward M. Hughes
Jackson
Milford
Conn
Greenwich
Albany College of Pharmacy
Albany Medical College
Albany Medical Center
Mary McClellan Hospital
Harold Lincoln Heads Nursing Home Group
Harold Lincoln, an enthusiastic gardener, is the new president of the Resident's Association at Mary McClellan Hospital's Skilled Nursing Facility in Cambridge. He fills the unexpired term of Mrs. Elizabeth Smith and despite using two artificial legs, tends many plants on the south side of the building. Mrs. Waite Pettys, 93, the oldest resident, is the newly elected vice president and editor of the Cracker Barrel.
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Cambridge
Harold Lincoln
Mary McClellan Hospital
Lincoln
Elizabeth Smith
Waite Pettys
Greenwich
Barge Museum Displays Early New York History in Kingston
Visitors explore the State Bicentennial Barge in Kingston and later Albany showing colonial life, Revolutionary War battles and culture. A Benjamin Franklin style press prints three dollar bills for the exhibit, with souvenir shops on board for history fans.
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Kingston
New York State
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North Hoosick
Sprague
Arthur Armstrong
Kavage
Holbritter
Karl - Lee Department Store
Wood Memorial Park
Festival of Praise '76
Larry Older
Adirondack
Sara Cleveland
Paul Caldwell
Dan Smith
Ray Wall
Schenectady-Niskayuna Folk Culture Club
Utica Free Academy
Palace Theater
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Eagle Street
Madison Avenue
Capital District Transportation Authority
Times Record
A.F
Petersburg
Frank Sherry
Canada
Vincent Tapler
New York City
Avenue of the Americas
Steve Ryan
Cynthia Davis
Luzerne, Hudson
Mildred Livingston
Catherine Green
Grace Armstrong
Catherine Hughes
Frances Stewart
Mary Leeseman
Salem
White Creek
Eagleville
Ray Phillips
Jerry Morin
Anton Beza
Dr. Jackson
South Union St
Geers Hollow Road
Port of Albany
Connecticu
New Jersey
Kingston Area
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